One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
— Kate Klise
I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich will continue.
— Karen Handel
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
— Kamala Harris
Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.
— Justin Trudeau
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.
There's a lot of people in this world that definitely need leadership, and they don't know where to look for it.
— Julio Jones
I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man - because that's what I was reading about in history books growing up.
— Julie Foudy
I love everything about football. You can learn so much from it, from leadership qualities to discipline. This sport involves every kind of emotion.
— Julie Ertz
I think I lead with empathy and connection to our people. I find that the most effective leadership style for me is to just talk and listen. It sounds simple, but it's so effective.
— Julia Hartz
I think having a visionary CEO is awesome, and visionary leadership is one thing, but you also need checks and balances on whether this company can withstand a very honest and critical look at itself.
NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.
— Juan Williams
When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.
— Joyce Meyer
All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.
— Josh Groban
We cannot keep gapping units where we need a good strong NCO or staff NCO and he's not there. They've got to have the right technical, the right leadership qualifications for the billet.
— Joseph Dunford
Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
— Jose Serrano
Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.
— Jon Taffer
Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.
— Jon Kyl
Too many women don't see themselves in senior leadership and so don't push themselves to advance their careers as their male peer group do.
— Karren Brady
As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
— Kamla Persad-Bissessar
I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.
You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.
Football has changed, but my style of leadership, my approach, hasn't.
— Jupp Heynckes
If you aspire to senior leadership, you're going to have to work hard. That doesn't mean you have to give up everything.
— Julie Sweet
Leadership is loud. It is quiet. It is thoughtful and emotional and cerebral and nerdy and goofy and joyful and motivating.
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
— Julia Stiles
I am excited to be working with the dedicated Four Seasons board and leadership team to build upon their reputation for industry-leading customer experiences while seeking out innovative ways to leverage technology that will help spur additional growth.
Great leadership and great companies aren't built overnight, and they're not built without capital. And capital can sometimes be counter-productive to building a great culture.
When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.
I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.
— Joyce Banda
With the election of Trump, America's soft power has taken a big hit. The United States has moved from a position of leadership in the creation of a rules-based international system to a position of leadership in its destruction and the creation of a regime of global protectionism. The damage will be long-lasting.
— Joseph Stiglitz
You can't have force structure without proper training, without proper equipment, without proper leadership, without proper funding to conduct exercises and perform maintenance.
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.
— Jonathan Sacks
The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
— John Wooden
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
— Karen Kain
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
— Kamisese Mara
Some people have come to admire Stephen Harper's style because he's standing at the top of the pyramid - that's not leadership to me.
My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.
Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
— Junior Seau
Whether you empower one person or the free world, that is leadership.
For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword.
The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
There is no finish line to leadership.
Most of the time, you think the problem is not as big as it is - because it says something negative about you or your company or your leadership. Face the reality: The facts are not as you want them to be.
— Judy Smith
President Trump's leadership has been very important to this effort of restoring democracy to Venezuela.
— Juan Guaido
Trump is reviled around the world, as is the U.S. under his leadership.
— Joy Reid
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
— Joseph Nye
Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Leadership is a trait; it's not a skill.
There is that definition of leadership that says, 'Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't have done because you've made them believe it's the right thing to do.' And a great speech can do that.
— Jon Lovett
